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Venancio

Boys' name

Hunter

Venancio has been given to 521 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Venancio, 2023

1 in 331,000

Venancio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Venancio: meaning, origin, and history

Hunter

Latin and Spanish

What Venancio means

Venancio means “hunter”, associated with venator.

Origin, language, and formation

Venancio is used in Cebuano, Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Latin and Spanish.

Venancio comes through Spanish Venancio and Latin venatium.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Venancio is pronounced /beˈnanθjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 521 boys were recorded with the name Venancio between 1919 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2003; its best national rank was #2,950 in 1943.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Venancio?

Venancio had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 331,000
10 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
229,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Venancio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Venancio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Venancios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Venancio was born before 1986 — so the typical Venancio is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
33.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
442
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2000s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Venancio rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (15)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,950
1943

Where Venancio is used

Across 1910–2025, Venancio was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 479,627 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Venancio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Venancio around the world

Where Venancio ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1968–1971
    #1,634
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Venancio by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,950
1943
Peak year
2003
15 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
521
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Venancio

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Venancio

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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